Re: Extended file stat: Splitting file- and fs-specific info?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 01:55:16PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> The basic idea of generation numbers is to check if an inode was
> recycled, so only if the tuple of inode-number and generation-number
> matches we still have the same file. Kernel nfs

NFS does not and should not look at the inode generation.  Except for a
bit of legacy code for the old pre-Linux 2.4 filehandles it looks at the
opaque file handle returned and only interpreted by the filesystem.  Any
userspace NFS server should do the same.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Linux USB Development]     [Linux Media Development]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux NILFS]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Info]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux